Chapter 35: Lexa's Revenge
The next morning....
Lexa woke to an empty bed. She frowned, upset that Alec would leave without waking her. She concentrated and could hear the water running in the bathroom. She got up and pulled on her robe hanging on the back of the closet door. She walked out into the kitchen to see Vin eating a bowl of cereal shirtless and shoe less.
She rolled her eyes. "You couldn't get dressed first? Is Alec in the shower?"
"I'm perfectly decent Lexa. And who would you expect to be in the shower?" Vin said mildly.
The water turned off and a moment later Alec walked out with only a towel around his waist.
"What is with you two? Do you just wear as little clothing as you can?" Lexa asked.
"C'mon sweetheart, do you now how many women would love to have two half naked studs in their apartment at once?" Alec asked.
"Not many if one of them was her brother." She answered wryly.
"Details, Details." Alec said dismissively.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" She asked him.
"I thought I would go get us breakfast." He told her.
Lexa's heart skipped a beat. Every time he would do something like that it reminded her exactly why she cared about him.
"I tell you what, why don't we go out to breakfast?" She asked.
Alec shrugged. "Cool."
"Okay, give me half an hour." She told him hurrying to the bathroom.
She took a record time shower and got out drying off briskly. Throwing on her robe she went into her room. She pulled a brush through her hair while she considered what to wear. Finally she selected a pair of black Capri pants and a pink top with a black vest. She grabbed her black jacket incase it got colder or rained later. She brushed her teeth and she and Alec were off to breakfast.
"See you tonight." Vin said as they left.
"Yep."
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Alec and Lexa walked into Jampony laughing over a story Lexa told Alec about Vin when they were younger.
"Hey I don't pay you slackers to enjoy yourselves." Normal called from behind his desk.
"Give it a rest Normal." Lexa called.
Max and OC were sitting by the lockers. "Hey you sound like you've been working here a long time." Max commented.
"Well, I adjust fast." She said dryly.
"You're on company time people!" Normal called from his post.
"Yeah, Yeah." Max called back. She turned and picked up her messenger's bag. "I gotta blaze. See you tonight at Crash?" She asked the group.
"Original Cindy will be there."
"I'm in." Alec added.
"Definitely." Lexa added.
Max nodded then asked hesitantly. "Are you going to bring Vin?"
"Thought I would." Lexa said. Max smiled. "Good."
"Okay, I'll see you there." Max said and wheeled her bike out of Jampony. OC made to follow her but Lexa grabbed her arm.
"OC, I need a word with you."
"Okay boo. What's up?"
"Not here. It's about that thing, you know, agreed to do together." She said knowingly.
Original Cindy caught on. "OH, you got a plan?"
"Please, do I have a plan?" Lexa asked with mock outrage.
Alec interrupted. "Ladies, if this is private, I can go do my runs."
Lexa turned and gave him a quick kiss. "Thanks. It's kind of girl stuff."
Alec frowned. "Okay. I'll see you for lunch?"
"Of course." Lexa said nodding.
Alec left.
Lexa turned to Original Cindy. "Okay, we promised Asha retribution if she did anything like she did to Max. We both know Max is above kicking her ass like she wants to right?" this received a nod from OC. "At first I thought we would just jump her and teach her a lesson but then I came up with an idea that would hurt both her and Logan.." She said and OC's eyes lit up.
"Good, rollerboy deserves a little bit of hurting. No a lot." Original Cindy amended.
"Right. SO here is what I thought we would do." And she leaned forward whispering the plan to her.
When she was done Original Cindy was leaning back laughing against the locker. "Boo, that is good. Original Cindy can definitely get behind that. So tonight?"
"Yep. Tonight. You know they will be at Crash." She said nodding.
"Hey you two! Do you think you're special?" Normal yelled at them.
"Actually, I am Normal, thanks for noticing." Lexa said sarcastically as she and OC walked over to get their packages. They left the building parting ways at the street.
"See you later OC!" Lexa yelled as she pedaled towards Sector Seven.
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Lexa dropped onto the bench between the lockers and sighed. Alec closed his locker and looked at her.
"You alright?" He asked her.
"I don't know."
Alec looked at her confused. "You don't know?"
"Nope."
"Why?" He asked dragging out the question.
"Because I have been on ten runs, before noon no less. I have this guilt complex about being gone so long." She paused and put on an upset, pouty face "And you know what's the worst?"
"What?" Alec said amused.
"I haven't been kissed since this morning."
Alec tried to keep a straight face. "Well, that is definitely a shame. I think I should fix that." He pulled her into his arms and kissed her sweetly.
"Ugh, you two need to get a room." Original Cindy said.
They pulled apart. "Lunch?" Alec asked.
"Lunch." Lexa affirmed. She turned to Original Cindy. "You want to come?"
"Actually, I have a lunch date with this shortie from a couple of nights ago at Crash." OC said with a secretive smile.
"Bring her along." Lexa offered.
Original Cindy looked momentarily shocked. "Oh okay." Lexa reached into Alec's jacket and pulled out his phone.
"Hey Hey! What am I a phone booth?" He protested.
"C'mon, we want OC to come with us." She said.
"But-" Lexa cut him off by kissing him and waving at OC to make her call. By the time Lexa pulled away from Alec the call was finished and Alec had a dazed look.
"It's all good. " OC pronounced. "She's going to meet us at Rancherita's."
"In Sector Seven?" Alec asked.
"Yup."
"We better go now." He told her. The trio set out for the restaurant.
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After lunch they returned to work, although somewhat reluctantly.
"I am stuffed. I don't think I can make my body work anymore. If the button on my pants go, someone is going to get hurt." Lexa groaned.
"You just had to see if you could break the nacho eating record didn't you?" Alec reminded her.
"Give her a break. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do." OC said backing her up.
Alec rolled his eyes skyward and raised his hands. "Will I ever win with them?"
"No." OC and Lexa said in unison.
Sketchy walked by and asked "No what? Where were you guys? I was hoping we could hang for lunch."
"Me too." Max said popping up behind them.
The three shared guilty looks when they realized what they had done.
"Well, we ended up going to lunch in sector seven with OC's new shortie." OC explained.
"Ooo. What's she like?" Sketchy asked making a "woman" shape in the air.
"Well, she's got blond hair and eyes to die for, Original Cindy can definitely get explicit with her." She divulged.
"What did you guys think of her?" Max asked smiling. Some of OC's shorties sometimes turned out to be someone you didn't want to hold a conversation with.
"She's nice." Lexa said politely. Max's smile grew into a knowing grin.
The group broke up shortly after to go do their runs. After work they made plans to meet at Crash. As Lexa was walking out of Jampony Alec held her back.
"What's up?' she asked.
"I just wanted to say goodbye." He told her kissing her. "I'll see you at Crash around eight or so." Then he kissed her once more and they left.
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Lexa stood in Vin's room waiting for him to get ready. He was staring into his closet not moving.
"It doesn't matter what you wear, she's gonna think you look hot." Lexa told him.
He still didn't move. Exasperated she pulled an outfit out of his closet and handed it to him. "Wear this. Get ready now."
She walked out and sat on the couch, ten minutes later he was ready. "You act like such a girl some times."
"One of us has to." He shot back at her.
"What?!" She screamed.
"It's sad that I can be more feminine than you can." He replied.
She launched herself off the couch at him. He grabbed her mid-air at the shoulder and turned using her momentum and slammed her against the wall. She brought her leg up by his side and kicked him in the back of the head. Vin grabbed her arm and turned her pushing her face into the wall and pinning her arm painfully.
"Give?" He asked.
"Yeah." She grumbled. "I hate you. I'm tell Max." She said whining.
"Yeah yeah, go tell mom, you big baby." He said smiling. She cuffed his ear and ran out the door to her bike. She mounted it and took of before he could reach her.
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Crash...
They walked in to see everyone already there and sitting at the usual table in the back. Alec and Sketchy were playing pool a couple of tables away and were standing with their backs to them settling up the night's debts.
"Hey." Max said.
"Hey yourself." Lexa replied.
"Alec's looking for a challenger." Max told Vin. He nodded and walked up behind them where Sketchy was telling a story waving his arms wildly.
Alec picked up the poolstick from the table and threw it to Vin behind him without looking. The group froze. Alec turned slowly fear on his face.
Lexa walked quickly to them and wrapped her arms around Alec as Sketchy asked how he did that.
"I uh- could hear him coming." Alec said stammering.
"But-" Sketchy protested.
"Fool, leave it alone." Original Cindy said pulling him to the table and handing him a beer. "Drink." She told him.
"It's okay." Lexa said to Alec. He looked down at her and whispered. "I just KNEW he was there."
"Just like I knew the poolstick was coming." Vin added.
"It's probably part of what is happening to us. Makes sense right? In battle it would be useful." Lexa tried to reason.
"But we aren't in battle." Vin insisted.
"Shh. Let's talk about it later. Too many ears here." Lexa told them.
They nodded and Lexa kissed Alec on the lips gently. "It'll be alright." She told him. He hugged her and then moved away.
"C'mon bro, I am gonna kick your ass." He told Vin.
"You can try." He retorted.
Lexa shook her head. 'Boys will be boys' she thought. 'Nothing like being macho in the face of fear.'
She went back to the table and sat down next to Original Cindy.
"Hey Boo. How's things?" She asked nodding towards Alec and Vin.
"Okay I guess. They seem to recover well." She told her. OC nodded emphatically.
"They boys." She said as if that was reason enough.
Lexa looked at them and murmured "That they are."
Just then movement at the bar's entrance caught her eye. She looked up and saw Asha and Logan walking in.
She nudged OC. "Feel like going with me to get the next round?" She asked.
"Not really." She replied, then she caught Lexa's pointed glance. "Oh. Of course. We'll be back." She told
Max and Sketchy who were arguing over who would win the game at the pool table.
"Cool." Max said.
The two women weaved their way through the people and headed for the bar. "There they are." Lexa said discreetly pointing out the couple sitting at a small table for two near the bar. The ladies passed by them pretending they didn't see them and took position at the bar with their backs to them.
OC signaled for the bartender. "Four more suga." She told him. Then in a voice loud enough to carry to the offending couple she said. "Have you seen our Boo lately? Original Cindy is so glad that she hooked up with Vin. We haven't seen her be this happy in a long time."
"Yeah. They do seem to be having fun. You should have seen them at our place last night. It was cute girl. They got all goofy when caught them kissing." Lexa said loudly laughing. She risked a quick glance at the table and saw that Logan was paying attention to their conversation while Asha was trying to talk to him.
"They do that a lot don't they? All I know is he makes her smile, which is more than this girl can say ol' rollerboy did." OC declared.
"Really? It was that bad?" Lexa asked pretending she didn't know.
"And worse girl. She was miserable, all unhappy when he got pissy, which he did a lot. Plus he couldn't stand hangin' with the crew." She said and wrinkled her nose in distaste. Lexa saw they really had Logan hooked and Asha was paying attention too.
"Well OC, you know he is like ten years older. Plus he can't exactly keep up with a crowd like us." She gave a meaningful look. "Besides, he always struck me as kind of dull. Maybe that's why he and Asha get along so well. She doesn't seem so bright anyway." Asha's face was turning purple.
"Sad, ain't it though?" OC said.
"What is?" Lexa asked.
"Sad that she had to go after someone that much older. Plus those females that go after the taken ones are always so desperate." She said. They turned to face the couple.
Asha and Logan were standing. She had her hands on her hips and her lips were set into a hard white line. Logan had paled.
"Oops. You was standing there? Didn't see you and didn't care." OC quipped. They grabbed the pitchers from the bar and laid down them money and a tip. The bartender was grinning ear to ear.
They moved to walk past the couple and Asha grabbed Lexa's arm.
"You don't want to do that." Lexa said in a low voice. Her body went tense, her temper shortened. Across the room Vin and Alec looked up in unison. When they saw what was happening they started towards the group.
"I don't?" Asha asked.
"Not if you want to keep it in working order."
"You don't scare me." Asha said nervously.
"I should. I so should. You know why?" Lexa continued without waiting for an answer. "Because I don't like either one of you. I don't like your type of woman, the pathetic losers who hang on till they final get what they want. Not because the man likes them, but" She looked at Logan "because they have to settle. Look at his face. You know it's true. Now run along little girl because you don't want to mess with me." By the end of her sentence Alec and Vin had made it to them and were standing beside the girls. In all the time Asha had hold of Lexa's arm she didn't spill a drop of the beer.
Asha's grip tightened and Vin, knowing what his sister would do took the jugs of beer. He did it so fast that it was a blur. As was Lexa breaking Asha's hold on her arm and two of her fingers as she twisted the girl's arm behind her back. "I warned you." Was all she said then Alec wrapped his arms around her shoulders and pulled her away. He held her trying to calm her while she looked at Asha with murder in her eyes.
"Now look" Logan started as he walked towards Lexa. Vin stepped in front of him.
"Give me a reason." Vin said in the same low tone Lexa had used. Logan backed away.
They left the bar with Asha cradling her hand whimpering softly.
"That was interesting." Max said and the group turned to see her and Sketchy standing by them. They hadn't heard them approach.
"Max, I'm sorry." Lexa began but Max held up her hand. She shook her head.
"It's alright. I understand. Part of me wishes that I could have done something like that." She was quiet a moment. "I think I am going to go home." She said.
"We'll go with you Boo." OC said referring to herself and Lexa.
"Thanks, I think we need some girl time." Max said smiling sadly.
"More?" groaned Alec. But he reached around Lexa and hugged Max briefly. "If you want I'll kick his ass."
"Nah. The look on his face was enough." Max said and grinned.
Lexa kissed Alec. "I'll see you later."
"Promise?" He whispered in her ear.
"Promise." She said.
The girls left.
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To Be Continued…
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